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This is officially the National Year of Reading.
You'll probably have noticed the campaigns, or at least Dua Lipa, urging you to pick up a book or listen to one.
40% of British adults haven't gone near a book in the last year.
Only one in five children are reading every day.
We know those numbers used to be a lot higher, and that reading for pleasure has been swapped for scrolling for doom.
Can you get the muscle back?
And why does it matter?
I think it's that sense of total immersion in a world and the way it colours your day emotionally.
I think when you get that, you know you've struck gold.
There are all of these amazing novels that people have spent their lives writing in some cases.